Question: Shakespeare Monologue!?
My college is putting on a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in March, and auditions are coming up for it in exactly one month!. I am gunning for the role of Titania, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a monologue that would possibly be akin to many of the speeches that Titania has!.
The monologue needs to be a Shakespearean comedic verse monologue, and it cannot be from Midsummer!. also, I am not allowed to use any of the material that I have worked with my director on in my Shakespeare class (which are Act Three Scene 1 from the Tempest, Helena's Act IV monologue from All's Well that Ends well, and Viola 's Act III scene 1 monologue from Twelfth Night!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Congratulations on your efforts!. It's a difficult part!. Beatrice is an obvious choice for a comedic part, but her lines are really not equivalent to one of the Titania speeches!. They are much shorter and all in prose!.
You said you can't do Helena Act IV monologue (I am not sure which monologue you mean)!. What about her monologue in Act III, scene 2!?
I've always though the monologue that Juliet gives when she send the nurse to talk to romeo is one of the funniest ones for a woman!. At the end of the monologu the nurse arrives and gives Juliet some set-up lines!.
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Juliet!.
The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return!.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so!.
O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,
Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings!.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come!.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me:
But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead!.
O God, she comes!
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Nurse!. Jesu, what haste!? can you not stay awhile!?
Do you not see that I am out of breath!?
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{Can you pantomime this line!?!. Do something to indicate that Juliet is following the nurse around the room and mimicking the Nurses heavy breathing!. Roll your eyes and go into the final outburst for your big finish}
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Juliet!.
How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath!?
The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse!.
Is thy news good, or bad!? answer to that;
Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:
Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Try these:
"As You Like It"
Act 3 Scene 1 Phoebe 'Know'st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile'
Act 3 Scene 5Rosalind 'Who might be your mother!?'
There are two books of Shakespeares monologues for women by dick Dotterer: 'Shakespeare's Monologues for Women' and 'Shakespeare's Ladies!.'
Als this website is designed tomake it easier to find his monologues, and has most if not all of them printed out!.
http://www!.shakespeare-monologues!.org/
Hope this helps!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Hermione in Winters Tale
Beatrice in Much Ado!.
Constance in Henry VI
Margaret in Rich IIIWww@QuestionHome@Com